Jack Curtis thought he’d finally achieved his goal of turning Merrywood Hall into a convalescent home for soldiers from the Great War. But it’s not going well. Some of the patients are proving troublesome and he’s been neglecting his child, much to his lover Tom Archer’s disappointment. And then the unthinkable happens. Into the world these two men have so carefully built for themselves comes the cruel hand of an enemy intent on destroying them completely. Tom and Jack must face up to their darkest battle yet. How they deal with it forms the story of The Merrywood Ransom.